Eight policemen of Tamil Nadu face arrest on charges of sexually assaulting two minor girls in Puducherry in April last year. The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed their plea for protection from arrest, observing that the policemen have acted as "vultures in uniform."

Even as the first batch of 82 children, rescued from bangle-making units in Hyderabad, head back home to Bihar, shocking details have emerged that about 30 per cent of the rescued children had been rescued earlier. They had been brought back by traffickers to work for the very same employers in the same bangle-making units, within six months.

The superintendent and supervisor of a government-run juvenile home in Hyderabad, where an 11-year-old was found dead in a mysterious condition this week, have been suspended. Police say that preliminary investigation point to negligence on their part.

More than 100 children from Jharkhand, brought for orphanages in Kerala without proper documents recently, were sent back home while 59 boys from West Bengal would be returned to their home state in the next two days, state government said on Tuesday.

To facilitate expeditious decisions regarding care and protection of neglected children the Delhi government has constituted a new Child Welfare Committee at Lajpat Nagar, for the rehabilitation of fire victim boys and girls.

Beaten mercilessly and tortured by his own parents, a five-year-old child is battling for life in a Kerala hospital, lying in coma, with extensive damage to his brain and lungs and horrifying injuries all over his body.

More than 2,150 rape cases were registered in Karnataka in the past three years, says a report of an official committee, calling for the need for non-bailable warrant against accused and bringing the crime under the stringent Goonda Act.

Eight months after her children returned to India after a lengthy legal battle in Norway, Sagarika Bhattacharya will be able to take them home. The 30-year-old had been granted custody of her son Abhigyan and her daughter Aishwarya by the Calcutta High Court.

On November 25, a brave 19-year-old girl caught her neighbour in the act of raping his three-year-old daughter, and rescued the child. Since then, the only family known to Asha (name changed to protect privacy) as she inches towards a recovery, are doctors who have been treating her, cops stationed to watch over her, and a caretaker appointed by th...

One-month old Damini is still in critical condition in hospital. But Baby Damini, who till two days ago was strapped by her father to his chest as he pulled a rickshaw in Rajasthan, now has a whole country looking after her.

Officials of the Dehu Road police station have come under heavy criticism for allegedly turning down a 15-year-old's plea to register a complaint of domestic violence against her husband and in-laws. In addition, they allegedly asked the girl to go back to her husband's home, and gave her Rs 20 for medical treatment.

Close on the heels of the Norway child custody row, a similar case has come to light in Sweden where an NRI woman has claimed that her son is being held in foster care on charges of neglect and sought the help from Indian authorities.

Even as baby Afreen continues to be on life support in the ICU of a Bangalore hospital, after allegedly being beaten by her own father, the state Child Welfare Committee has issued a notice to the paternal grandmother of baby Afreen. The committee is hoping to question her on why she hadn't reported her son's violent behaviour and also her reasons ...

A day after MiD DAY's expose on the baby-selling racket flourishing in Ulhasnagar, even as Minister of Women and Child Welfare assured of necessary action in the matter, members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) called for an emergency meet at NGO Divya Prabha's offices in Vartak Nagar, Thane last afternoon.

Thirty-six children between the age of one to 18 have disappeared from the Niradhar Balsangopan Anath Ashram in Dapodi in Pune. The incident took place just two days after the Dnyanadevi-Childline social workers found all 36 children eating together in a single room on the ground floor of the two-storey structure, the construction of which is still...